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Show Join our new community Websites today at OurTowns.heraldextra,com OUR TOWNS = SECTION DailusHeralo | | | THURSDAYJUNE 18, 2009 METRO EDITOR | Amie Rose - (801) 344-2530 - arose@heraldextra.com pringville ripping up stretch of Man sentencedfor Jordanelle murder|‘S A) Judge gives Alvey 20 years to life in prisonfor 2008 slaying Janice Peterson DAILY HERALO sentenced Wednesdayin the HeberCity 4th District Court Judge Derek Pullan senHEBER CITY — A man contenced Christopher T. Alvey, victed in the shooting death of 20, to a prison term of 20 Ashley Sparksat Jordanelle Christopher fiver Reservoir in December was years to life for the charge of aggravated murder. “It is the recommendation acrime. of this court that that term,at Pullan compared the crime the very least, be 30 years,” to the most reprehensible Alvey pleaded guilty in April to-shooting Sparks on humanlife. “Mr. Alvey, thatlife did not he said. level of theft, the taking of a Dec, 26, 2008, which prosecutors said was because Alvey and Joshua Binkerd believed Sparks was going to the authorities with information belong to you,”Pullan said. “It wasnot yoursto take.” Sparks’slife belonged to her family and friends who that would implicate them in See SENTENCE, B7 400 South Kira Johnson For months now, Springville residents have rerouted their morning commutes around a construction project taking out 400 South fromMain Street to Interstate 15, but another project on the same street could bring more congestion. The first project is dueto open by Novem ber20. For the businesses tied up by construc: tion, sales have been down but the end is in sight “Eventuallyit’s going to be awesome,” said Michael Bishop, Wendys General Manager. “Theroad's going tobe huge. I’ll bet our business will be up10 to 15percent Obviously we're taking a beating right now with the VIDEO ONLINE heraldextra.com road being closed, but we'vegot five more months right?” On Wednesday, construction crews began tearing into another stretch of 400 South between 400and 800east aproject that will ultimatelystretch from Main Street to 1300 East before'it’s finished around Labor Day “Our planis to makethe east end of 400 South just as-nice as the west end,” wrote MayorGene R. Manguminthe most recent editionof Springville’s city newsletter “How: ever, in orderto do thejob right we've got to do some moredigging.” Springville City Administrator Troy Fitzgerald said Wednesday that “weareun: der direction from the city council to provide clean roadway, hopefully from1300 Eastall ASHLEY FRANSCELL/Daily Herald Nikki Merrill [right] goes over flashcards with her student Karina Gordillo on Tuesdayat the Adult Literacy Center at the Provo Library. The center received a $10,000 grant from Dollar General to pay for new teaching materials and a new copier machine $10,000 grants given to two localliteracy groups Caleb Warnock fA Grants for $10,000 each have been awarded to two local pro grams workingto helpadults learn toread. Dollar Gen: eral gave the money as part of a campaign that has given VIDEO ONLINE heraldextra.com morethan $33 mil liontoliteracy programsnation: wide over the past 15 years, ac cording to a spokesperson for the organization. Project Read, based out of the Provo Library, will use its $10,000 to target moreof the hardest -toreach clients are often the most reluctant to stepforwardand seekhelp, said Shauna Brown, executive director ofthe program It is embarrassing to admit those who are native speakers of English. They the way to the freeway, certainly from 1000 East to the freeway, with all new pavement and a smoothroad completely throughthat section. Right now we're doing underground work from400 East to 800 East putting in a stormdrainand replacing water sewer con nections onthat stretch of road The city has been working for the past two years to complete someof the underground work required. Oncethe current improve mentproject is finished, the city can pass a five-year moratorium on digging onthe east ern stretchof 400 South Paving for the section of 400 South from Mainto 400 East will go outto bid next week to be completed at the sametime as the See UTERACY, B7 Local artist to unveil Nauvoo EPA removing explosives from Saratoga Spring paintings at charity event Caleb Warnock If you go In the short period before a thriv- ing Nauvoo dwindled toa virtual ghost town fol lowing the Mor- We PHOTO Federalauthorities say they've finished clean: ing up an abandoned mining-explosives factory in mons’ forced exodus to Utah, heraldextra.com the city “seemed to be the greatest place to live,” said Lindon artist Eric Dowdle — and it is Utah County and will haul awaythe liquid slurry this week The Environmental Protection Agency says there is no longer a threat of a spontaneous explo- sion at Cook Slurry Co., a business run by former US. Rep. Merrill Cook to capture with a new series of 24 The EPA plansto truck the liquid and solid fill near Rowley. This will involve seven to nine tanker trucks carrying liquid waste and four to 3 When:Today, 7-10 p.m. » Where: Hatfieldadelphia. 110 S. Main St., Lindon. paintings. Now, Old Nauvoo will come to Paintings depict everything from the iconic Nauvoo Temple to the so- Dowdle teams with a local charity to unveil his latest works. The paintings will be displayed at a reception the historic tour of the cityis repro- Utah Valleyon this evening as six trucks carrying solid waste over the next two weeks. The trucks will travel down Israel Canyon Road to Stillwater Drive to Redwood Road, then at Hatfieldadelphia in Lindon from 7 to 10 p.m northto the landfill. Cook was locked out of the site near Saratoga Springs last August in a lease dispute with a state Dowdle said he spent about a agency The Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands associated with the shipment » What: Unveiling celebration for the Nauvoo series by Eric Dowdle, sponsored by in Our Own Quiet Way. that brief era that Dowdle hastried wastes to the Wasatch RegionalIndustrial Land: Administration called in the EPA to get the place cleaned up. The EPA assures all appropriate safety measures will be taken to minimize the risk See CONSTRUCTION, B6 Ere: Dowie The Nauvoo Temple is one painting by Eric Dowdle in his series of Nauvoo historical buildings week and a half in Nauvoo last August, researching the project. “| just didn't think they were telling the storjes of the individual houses as | thought they should be,” he said. called Red Brick Store and even the Riser Boot Shop. Every building on duced in the art Painted in his signature bright and folksystyle, Dowdle said he hopes his newpaintings, which will also be turned into prints and puzzles, will become touchstones for those who havevisited Nauvoo. “If you've been there and been See PAINTINGS, B6 |